José de Bouza Serrano
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José de Bouza Serrano | |
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| Chief of Protocol of Portugal | |
| In office 27 October 2008 – 31 March 2012 | |
| Preceded by | Manuel Corte-Real |
| Succeeded by | António de Almeida Lima |
| Portuguese Ambassador to the Netherlands | |
| In office 14 March 2012 – 20 September 2016 | |
| President | Aníbal Cavaco Silva Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa |
| Preceded by | Jorge Silva Lopes |
| Succeeded by | Rosa Batoréu |
| Portuguese Ambassador to Denmark | |
| In office 24 November 2004 – 10 October 2008 | |
| President | Jorge Sampaio Aníbal Cavaco Silva |
| Preceded by | José Freitas Ferraz |
| Succeeded by | João Silveira Carvalho |
| Personal details | |
| Born | José de Bouza Serrano 20 July 1950 |
| Alma mater | University of Lisbon |
José de Bouza Serrano GCIH OIH GCM (born 20 July 1950) is a Portuguese diplomat.
He earned a licentiate degree in Law from the University of Lisbon, and joined the diplomatic career in 1978.[1] He served as the Portuguese Ambassador in Copenhagen (Denmark) from 2004 to 2008,[2][3] as the (non-resident) Portuguese Ambassador in Vilnius (Lithuania) in 2005,[4][5] as the country's Chief of Protocol from 2008 to 2012,[1][6] and as the Portuguese Ambassador in The Hague (Netherlands) from 2012 to 2016.[7][8]
In 2019, Bouza Serrano sold his 170-piece collection of 17th-to-19th-century Ming and Qing Chinese porcelain to the Orient Foundation; the collection is now on permanent exhibition at the Museum of the Orient, in Lisbon, under the name "The Former Bouza Serrano Collection – The Strength of Fragile Things".[9]
An outspoken monarchist (self-described as a "committed monarchist in the service of the Republic"[10]), in 2023 he was in charge of protocol at the wedding of Infanta Maria Francisca, Duchess of Coimbra in Mafra Basilica.[11][12]
